Fanny de Beauharnais
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| Born | 4 October 1737 Paris |
| Died | 2 July 1813 (aged 75) |
| Spouse(s) | Claude de Beauharnais |
| Father | François-Abraham-Marie Mouchard |
| Mother | Anne-Louise Lazure |
Fanny de Beauharnais, née Marie-Anne-Françoise Mouchard (4 October 1737,
Monaco
.
Life
The daughter of the receiver-general of finances in Champagne, whilst very young she married comte
Marie Josèphe Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie, better known to history as Josephine
.
She wrote poetry from her childhood onwards and, after separating from her husband, devoted herself to literature, became friends with literary figures such as
Académie des Arcades
.
In 1787 she wrote and put on a five-act prose comedy entitled la Fausse inconstance, though it was not a success. In 1790 she was received into the Académie de Lyon.
Her detractors attributed her work to Dorat and other friends of hers. The
Charlotte-Rose de Caumont La Force
:
Eglé, belle et poète, a deux petits travers : Elle fait son visage et ne fait pas ses vers.
Marriage and issue
On 6 March 1753, she married
Claude de Beauharnais
and their children were:
- Claude de Beauharnais (1756–1819), 2nd Count des Roches-Baritaud (1756–1819).
- Françoise de Beauharnais (1757–1822)
- Anne de Beauharnais (1760–1831)
Works
- Mélanges de poésies fugitives et de prose sans conséquence (Paris, 1772, 2 vol. in-8°)
- Lettres de Stéphanie, historical novel (Paris, 1773, in-8°)
- l’Abailard supposé, novel (Paris, 1780, in-8°)
- l’Île de la Félicité, philosophical poem (1801, in-8°)
- le Voyage de Zizi et d’Azor, poem in 5 books (1811, in-8°).
References
- Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 217.
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